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Comments American singer Katy Perry made on TV while promoting her Prismatic tour Down Under made their way halfway around the world, and Miley Cyrus is not happy Image Credit: AFP

Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus were supposedly girlfriends — but are they anymore? Comments Perry made on TV while promoting her Prismatic tour Down Under made their way halfway around the world, and Cyrus is not happy.

It all started on Monday on Australia’s Sunrise programme, when one of the hosts riffed off Perry’s hit I Kissed a Girl to lead into a discussion of the Roar singer’s recent lip-lock with Cyrus during one of the Wrecking Ball singer’s shows.

“Scandalous!” Perry joked, before explaining what went down.

“I went to her show, which was amazing. It is very colourful — I mean that in all ways. She has this one part where it’s like a kiss cam. I just walked up to her to give her like a friendly girly kiss, you know, as girls do. Then she like tried to move her head and go deeper and I pulled away.

“God knows where that tongue has been,” Perry declared. “We don’t know. That tongue is so infamous!”

Well, we know it’s been on myriad red carpets, in paparazzi photos, on TV, in concert ...

On the show, Perry acted as if Cyrus were a pal, but whatever translation made it Cyrus’s way a couple of days later did not please the tongue’s owner one bit.

And so a feud was born.

“Girl if ur worried abt where tongues have been good thing ur ex boo is ur EX BOO cause we ALL know where THAT [tongue] been,” Cyrus tweeted on Thursday, attaching screen grabs of Perry doing her Aussie interview.

Now, whether she’s referring to recent ex John Mayer or ex-husband Russell Brand is anyone’s guess. Mayer’s notorious for his many Hollywood hook-ups, while Brand is a self-confessed sex addict.

May be Perry would have been more into it had the moment been rehearsed — such as Cyrus’s grinding, dirty dancing with Madonna when the two performed together during the younger singer’s MTV Unplugged concert in January.

So was Perry really grossed out, or was she just having fun in the moment on TV?

— Los Angeles Times